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b) Hellenic Society for Systemic Sciences
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We are pleased to invite you to participate to our 13th. National and International Conference via the following ways: 01. Keynote video presentation for which you prepare the video and we shall present it during the Conference. 02. Keynote Address as Poster paper for which you prepare your ppt (pdf) which we shall present it in the Conference's site. 03. Live Keynote presentation from a distance using the platforms of Webex (Cisco) or Skype. 04. In case you wish to travel to Sparta for a Keynote Address, please let us know. 05. You may wish to organize a workshop in a specific topic for a duration of 90 minutes, please let us know (in Greek or English language). For any of the above case you decide, please send an email to **13hsss@hsss.eu** For paper presentation, please prepare an extended abstract and send it through [|Abstract Submission] The Conference will be promoted through the social media and it is a good googling case for your work.**We shall expect your reaction by the end of April 2017.**All the best, Professor Nikitas Assimakopoulos, HSSS President.
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 * Full Member of IFSR and European Union for Systemics, Business Member of AACSB ****13th. National and International Conference, ****Greece, Sparta, 2nd & 3rd. June, 2017. **** [|www.conf.hsss.eu] ****under the auspices of the University of Piraeus, Department of Informatics, and the University of Peloponnese, Dept. of Sport Organization and Management **
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** Hellenic Society for Systemic Studies (HSSS) **  //An Applied Systemics Society for Business Excellence//  **Full Member of IFSR****Business Member of AACSB** in collaboration with and under the auspices of the Department of Informatics, University of Piraeus. ** 12th HSSS National and International Conference **  ** 15th and 16th of July, 2016 **  **Coral Hotel, in Palaio Faliro, Athens, Greece.** ** Professional Systemics ** ** & ** ** Stakeholder Engagement ** [|**www.conf.hsss.eu**] **You will attend:** Keynote addresses, Papers and Digital Poster Papers, Professional Panel, Professional Round Table and ** Workshops on ** A Stakeholder Analysis in Sport Administration: A Systems Perspective An Employee-Centric, Multi-stakeholder Engagement to GSPR’s Operational Excellence Changing the Business Ecosystem: Cloud AppsTotal Leadership: Strategies & Stakeholders ERP with ISO and its Stakeholders: experience from SAP profsional projects Stakeholders and Systemic Negotiations A Co-Laboratory to introduce participants in Structured Dialogue methodologies of the digital era // Participants should come with a Digital Device and download the **IdeaPrism App** and create an account before they enter the workshop // <span style="color: #002060; display: block; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 13.33px; text-align: center;">Health Tourism Stakeholder Engagement and Integration <span style="color: #002060; display: block; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 13.33px; text-align: center;">Pharmacy Management and its Stakeholders ** Meet the Professionals in Professional Systemics ** <span style="color: #002060; display: block; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> Only 75 seats for each day of the Conference. <span style="color: #002060; display: block; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> **No Fees - Please register through** []

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Hellenic Society for Systemic Studies (HSSS)An Applied Systemics Society for Business Excellence Full Member of IFSR
Dear Colleague, The HSSS has successfully organized over the last 12 years our National and International Conferences, focusing on a variety of topics and themes that are most relevant to our complex world. **The 12th. HSSS Conference (12HSSS) will be convened between the 15th and 16th of July, 2016, at the Coral Hotel, in Palaio Faliro, Athens, Greece.** The Conference is organized in collaboration with and under the auspices of the Department of Informatics of the University of Piraeus, Greece. The title of this year’s Conference is: Professional Systemics and Stakeholder Engagement We are happy to extend an invitation to you to participate in our Conference, in one of two ways: Abstracts should be submitted no later than the 25th of May, 2016 to the address below: [] The last submission date for the ppt file (Digital Poster Session) is 10th of June, 2016. The book of abstracts including the Digital Poster Session will be on-line in the site of the Conference for “googling”. Additional announcements relative to Keynote Addresses and the workshops of the Conference will be made soon. I would be happy to provide any further details and/or additional information, as it becomes necessary. I can be reached at: 12hsss@hsss.eu Best Regards, Professor Nikitas Assimakopoulos, HSSS President. ---
 * The submission of an abstract (in advance) and presentation of your work in person, on-site.
 * The submission (in advance) of an abstract, together with a PowerPoint (ppt) presentation that will be placed in our “Digital Poster Section”, as a converted pdf file from your ppt submission. The pdf file will be assessable for viewing (from any location in the world and with any digital media) only by the registered Conference participants, using an access code that will be issued by the Conference’s secretariat. Please indicate with your submission that you wish to participate in the “Digital Poster Session”, should you wish to do so.

PROFESSIONAL SYSTEMICS & STAKEHOLDER ENGAGEMENT The Hellenic Society of System Studies’ 12th. annual National & International Conference will be held in Piraeus, Greece from 15 to 16, 2016, in collaboration with and under the auspices of Department of Informatics, University of Piraeus, Greece. The theme of the Conference, is Professional Systemics and Stakeholder Engagement, with applications in both public and private sector organizations, across a wide spectrum of service and production industries. It is an axiomatic tenet today that organizations operate in complex environments that change frequently due to social-cultural, legal, economic, political, environmental, ethical, demographic, and technological influences. Indeed, increasing uncertainty seem to be the only constants in our turbulent world. This uncertainty is in part a result of the pluralistic differences in people’s perception of reality, the varied believes, attitudes, and values that drive their complex motivations, and issues associated with culture, politics, and power structures. Systems theory proposes that systems are open to and interact with their environment in the form of a continual exchange of matter, energy, and information. This exchange is realized through the system’s boundary, which is the spatial, temporal, and/or conceptual boarder that separates the system’s interdependent elements from the environment. The system’s environment in turn, is composed of those elements and their properties that are not a part of the system but which nevertheless have an impact on the state of the system. Professional Systemics bridges the gap between theory and practice and promotes the use of effective Methodologies and Multi-Methodologies in managing meaningful stakeholder engagement. Stakeholder engagement is an umbrella term encompassing a range of activities through which an organization involves persons or groups who may be directly or indirectly affected by the decisions it makes and/or influence the outcome of its decisions, either positively or negatively. Stakeholders include business partners, customers, suppliers, national or local government bodies, civil societies, special interest groups, affected communities, and others. Organizations that actively engage their stakeholders gain valuable insight into the various issues that motivate their behavior, and align their business practices with their stakeholders’ needs and expectations, thus driving long-term equity and sustainability. A systems approach allows the organization to successfully apply a holistic approach for the purpose of engaging in a meaningful dialogue with its stakeholders in order to achieve a level of effective operation through fact-based decision-making, which in turn gives the organization awareness of the long term consequences of its actions (actions taken or avoided). Further, through a systems approach, the policy-maker is in a better position to redefine the issues at hand, rather than apply modifications of older solutions which may have been employed in the past. The fields of theoretical and applied research that will be addressed by the conference include but are not limited to the following:• Corporate Social Responsibility & Sustainability • Risk Management & Business Continuity • Crisis Management • Negotiation & Conflict Management • Media Relations • Public Affairs, Lobbying • Compliance Management • Marketing/Brand and Consumer Communication • Market Development • Social Medial Engagement • Customer Relations Management • Supplier Management • Human Resource Management • Grievance Management • Environmental Management • Project Management • Change Management • Knowledge Management • Information Management //**---**// //**Kind Last Reminder**// **2016 EMCSR International Conference in Vienna Austria**
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** Hellenic Society for Systemic Studies (HSSS), co-organizer **
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//** Symposium: Professional Systemics in Vienna **//

//** Symposium: Professional Systemics on-line Live from a distance **//

Chairs: Nikitas Assimakopoulos and Dimitrios Varsos, University of Piraeus, Department of Informatics, Piraeus, Greece

**Call for papers and invited papers**

The Symposium’s aim is to stimulate an energetic exchange of systems approach perspectives in the area of Professional Systemics applied effectively in organizations and enterprises across a wide spectrum of both service and production industry sectors.

The traditional organization is designed along a hierarchical structure in which activities are organized along common areas of responsibility. Key processes are defined and controlled within strict functional boundaries, with minimum attention given to systemic interaction. Business decisions are derived through analytical methods which involve the determination of the meaning of what is studied in the context of a reductionist approach: reducing the whole into its constituent elements, understanding each element separately and aggregating understanding of the individual elements into an understanding of the whole. Given the dynamic complexity of the today’s business environment and the continual exchange of its constituent elements, application of the reductionist method typically results in the loss of the essential properties of both the system studied as well as of its parts. Hence, business decisions lack cohesion, and management, the ability to align activities to effectively achieve the company’s long-term strategic objectives.

Systems thinking is fundamentally different from the reductionist method in that it focuses on the understanding of how and why various elements affect one another within a defined unified whole. A systemic approach concentrates on the understanding of the interactions of the constituent elements of a system that produce a behavior rather than the segregated parts of the system, studied in isolation. The need for a systemic approach has never been more imperative, given the realities of the new economic climate impelled by the current credit crisis and the need for organizations to challenge existing paradigms, core values and business assumptions against the dynamic complexity of a volatile economic environment.

Professional Systemics is the practical application of systems thinking to everyday situations. It is a means through which to handle complexity in a manner which has achievable, measurable and realistic results.

Professional Systemics bridges the gap between theory and practice and promotes the use of effective systemic Methodologies and Multi-Methodologies in managing today’s dynamic organizational complexity.

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//**Please send only your abstracts to : emcsr.avantgarde@bcsss.org**// //**Please indicate for Professional Systemics in Vienna or on-line**//

//** Don’t miss the Date!! 19th February 2016! **//

“Risk Society: Challenges for the 21st Century”

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International Conference Athens, November 5-7, 2009 The Hellenic Sociological Society, aiming to promote the scientific dialogue among Sociologists, but also the interdisciplinary debate among Social Scientists, is organizing an International Conference in Athens from. The general theme of the Conference is Risk Society : Challenges for the 21st Century. Our keynote speaker will be Prof. Ulrich Beck. Also attending the Conference will be speakers specializing in the main theme. The Conference is open to anyone interested in participating with a presentation in the aforementioned thematic area or in any other area of sociological interest. We invite papers on issues of broader sociological and social interest, so we are open to proposals for special sessions. On the basis of abstract content, the Organizing Committee will set up additional thematic sessions for presentation and discussion, comprised according to epistemological thematic unit. Please send your abstracts to: grsociolsoc@gmail.com and make sure that you attach a short Curriculum Vitae. Deadline for abstract submission : August 30, 2009. Size of abstract: 300 words. Size of CV: 200 words. Prof. Eleni Nina-Pazarzi HSS President Prof. Sotiris Htouris HSS General Secretary


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